Fan Blogging

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While chasing down a few more fan fiction leads, I stumbled across a writer named Trinket over at Blogcritics.org. Her biography is a bit mysterious: she seems to be a journalist and book writer, but most importantly, Trinket has mastered the art of fan blogging. Trinket writes elaborate blog entries that explore the mind of Detective Robert Goren--an imaginary detective from the show Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Over at the Detective Robert Goren site, Trinket continues her fictional trip through the homicide detective's mind, maintaining an intensely personal blog for the fictional detective. Half crime blog and half fan fiction, Trinket's writing fits perfectly into our recent forays into these seemingly dissimilar genres.

Trinket's work fits into an intense community of Law & Order: Criminal Intent fan fiction writers, and her work illustrates how a powerful imagination can find a very specialized audience on the web. This excerpt from the Blogcritics.org story keeps the confessional spirit of blogs, but shimmers with an acute awareness of the similarities between psychologically profiling a criminal and being an crime fiction writer. Listen...

"But sometimes I end up in places I'd rather not be. Sometimes I understand what drives them too much and it frightens me. One guy still haunts me. "John" was the stereotypical shy guy. He'd watch guys try to pick up girls — a thirty-something-year-old man still stuck in adolescence. He didn't know how to interact with women and resorted to drugging them and performing homemade lobotomies on them. Desperate measures to make them stay with him. A sick, twisted man and yet, it was all about loneliness. He didn't want to be as alone for the rest of his life as he had been for the beginning of it. Desperate, depraved actions for a tiny bit of normalcy. Perceived love. A warm body to cuddle up to at night."

Any Law & Order: Criminal Intent fans out there? Did I describe the community well? Do you have anything to add?

Please, drop me a line below...

Cheers,
Jason Boog

Posted by: Jason Boog | March 12, 2006 1:31 PM | Permalink to Comment

» Fan Blogging from ThePublishingSpot
While chasing down a few more fan fiction leads, I stumbled across a writer named Trinket over at Blogcritics.org. Her biography is a bit mysterious: she seems to be a journalist and book writer, but most importantly, Trinket has mastered... [Read More]

Dear Detective Robert Goren,

Thanks for stopping by! You are officially the first ficitional homicide detective to endorse my website. Keep reading and commenting, please!

Posted by: Jason Boog | March 13, 2006 7:58 AM | Permalink to Comment

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